Year in Business 2016: A look back at the top stories

Jan. 11: The Levin family sells its motel and restaurant businesses, The Sound View in Greenport, to Eagle Point Hotel Partners.

Jan. 18: Flip-Flop Gymkids opens in Southold.

Feb. 1: Bobby Heaney, longtime owner of Skipper’s Restaurant in Greenport, confirms he’s sold his business to Bryan Villanti.

Feb. 2: Sea Tow Services International names Capt. Joseph Frohnhoefer III as its new chief executive officer and Kristen Frohnhoefer as president. Both are children of the late Joseph Frohnhoefer Jr., the company’s founder.

Feb. 13: Rhumb Line restaurant in Greenport closes following a State Liquor Authority investigation into complaints by police.

Feb. 18: Breeze Hill Farm confirms it will open a second location on Route 48.

March: Furniture store TouchGOODS opens in Southold.

March 3: Maryann and Ken Birmingham confirm plans to open Case’s Place at the former Galley Ho property in New Suffolk.

March 8: James Olinkiewicz unveils plans to build restaurants and apartments at former Meson Ole building on Third Street in Greenport.

March 17: Southold Farm + Cellar closes after the ZBA rejected a request for variances to convert an existing accessory structure into a wine-tasting area and construct a winery building on the property.

March 18: While the Claudio family’s restaurant complex in Greenport has been on the market, they confirmed they’ll still own the business and reopen this season.

April 4: Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs a state law that will gradually raise the minimum wage on Long Island to $15 an hour.

April 5: Vineyard 48 is fined and its liquor is suspended for three weeks as part of a state ruling on complaints from neighbors and police.

April 14: Owners of Country Corner Cafe in Southold confirm the restaurant is back on the market.

April 27: North Fork Shack in Southold opens.

April 28: Blue Canoe Oyster Bar & Grill in Greenport confirms it will not reopen after three years.

April 30: Lisa Jerome, owner of Hart’s True Value Hardware in Southold, confirms her family business is for sale.

May: Greenport Jerky Company begins selling its products at the Greenport Farmers Market and online.

Oct. 28: Supervisor Scott Russell proposes a moratorium on new winery, brewery and distillery applications, saying the town needs time to revamp the “sparse” codes it has for regulating the industries.

Nov. 11: Nearly 120 acres of open space in Mattituck and Cutchogue, now the site of an abandoned vineyard, sells for $8.5 million.

Nov. 18: Aqquua — a company that promises sustainable, traceable fish farming — has its sights set on the former oyster factory property at the end of Shipyard Lane in East Marion.

December: Boom Burger, a comic-book-themed eatery, announces it will open a new location in Mattituck Plaza.

Dec. 5: The Beauty Apothecary, a new skin care and cosmetics store, opens in Mattituck.

Dec. 6: The Greenport ZBA approves a series of variances for a hotel and restaurant on the southeast corner of Third and Front streets.